1 She was found lying in the street.
2 The surgeon leaned over the body, and raised the left hand.
3 The patient shook her head, and stretched out her hand towards the child.
4 They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever.
5 She was brought here last night,' replied the old woman, 'by the overseer's order.
6 For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception.
7 Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.
8 Besides, the board made periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
9 The surgeon had been sitting with his face turned towards the fire: giving the palms of his hands a warm and a rub alternately.
10 'You needn't mind sending up to me, if the child cries, nurse,' said the surgeon, putting on his gloves with great deliberation.
11 The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.
12 If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder.
13 So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
14 The medical gentleman walked away to dinner; and the nurse, having once more applied herself to the green bottle, sat down on a low chair before the fire, and proceeded to dress the infant.
15 There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
16 The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in 'the house' who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need.
17 Although I am not disposed to maintain that the being born in a workhouse, is in itself the most fortunate and enviable circumstance that can possibly befall a human being, I do mean to say that in this particular instance, it was the best thing for Oliver Twist that could by possibility have occurred.
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